Well, i'm no artist but fat tends to build up in two "aprons" hanging from organs in the abdomen, and needless to say follows the force of gravity. Later on, it builds up between the organs. Some people have pear-shaped obesity and others have apple-shaped. Fat makes the body look softer. You can add volume in sketching by using different degrees of hatching to emphasise varying degrees of shadow and you can also apply it to stress contour. You can't tack on bits of increased volume to a pre-existing figure in general but need to increase the curve relative to inner parts of the body, if you see what i mean. If you follow the curves of the body loosely, producing weaving lines, the body looks more fluid. Also, try filling balloons with wet cornflour and stacking them on top of each other, maybe with elastic bands on lines drawn on them with felt-tip to located landmarks. Breasts can be thought of as tennis balls in socks when small and their tips are just in the line of sight when standing up and looking forward. They're not cups or balloons, and they have tails leading towards the armpits. Like the rest of the body, they respond to gravity! Visible joints such as elbows and knees become dimples. The fatter someone is, the softer and less defined their muscles. Hope that helps. I don't think liquid, gas and fat behave in similar ways though.
Need help with anatomy!
So, yeah. I draw. Alot.
But I have this big problem where I never seem to get the anatomy right on overweight people. The fat just seems so wrongly placed!
So if anyone here got any tips, links.. Anything really, please help!
And, I don't do immobility fat, I work with chubby characters. On females, I can do pretty good, but on males it just looks completely horrible.. Slim male anatomy does fine, tho.
Please, help. Send me a message if you have any tips, tricks or links :)
Ah, thank you n__n
I'll be sure to keep this answer in front of me next time I try to draw XD
Thanks and sorry for the double post. I'm sure i could contrive to be more helpful but i'm no artist and this is entirely theoretical. In the meantime, the PDF "Inflation Manual" i put on DA includes cross-sectional diagrams of uninflated and inflated torsos which show the rough positions of viscera and fat inside the abdomen. The drawings in that whole document are dreadful because they're only there as placeholders waiting for a better artist to come along who never did, sadly, but they might help too. I think part of the problem is that most figure drawing techniques focus only on skeletal and muscular anatomy and give only passing attention at best to anything else, so you end up having very little to draw on (as it were) when considering inflation. The body is inflatable subcutaneously or viscerally and those thoughts should probably be taken into consideration. The subcutaneous layer is also anchored in some places, such as joints, and that would increase realism.
Well, i'm no artist but fat tends to build up in two "aprons" hanging from organs in the abdomen, and needless to say follows the force of gravity. Later on, it builds up between the organs. Some people have pear-shaped obesity and others have apple-shaped. Fat makes the body look softer. You can add volume in sketching by using different degrees of hatching to emphasise varying degrees of shadow and you can also apply it to stress contour. You can't tack on bits of increased volume to a pre-existing figure in general but need to increase the curve relative to inner parts of the body, if you see what i mean. If you follow the curves of the body loosely, producing weaving lines, the body looks more fluid. Also, try filling balloons with wet cornflour and stacking them on top of each other, maybe with elastic bands on lines drawn on them with felt-tip to located landmarks. Breasts can be thought of as tennis balls in socks when small and their tips are just in the line of sight when standing up and looking forward. They're not cups or balloons, and they have tails leading towards the armpits. Like the rest of the body, they respond to gravity!
Visible joints such as elbows and knees become dimples. The fatter someone is, the softer and less defined their muscles.
Hope that helps. I don't think liquid, gas and fat behave in similar ways though.
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